Education of refugees is a responsibility that must be fulfilled

Refugees, like all young people, deserve a quality education, to enable them to reach their potential but many do not have access to this critical resource, writes Filippo Grandi

The world’s refugee crisis is most often measured in numbers. But for young refugees missing out on an education, the crisis can also be tracked by an irreversible metric: the passage of time.

Of the 17.2m people that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (the UN Refugee Agency) is responsible for protecting, roughly half are under the age of 18, meaning that an entire generation of young people, already robbed of their childhood, could lose out on a future as well.